Pleasantville (1998)

Paul Morgan Stetler: College Counselor

Quotes 

• [Montage of teachers talking to David's classes] 

  College Counselor : For those of you going on to college next year, the chance of finding a good job will actually decrease by the time you graduate. The available number of entry-level jobs will drop 31 percent over the next four years. Median income for those jobs will go down as well. Obviously, my friends, it's a competitive world, and good grades are your only ticket through. In fact, by the year 2000...

  Health Teacher : The chance of contracting HIV from a non-monogamous lifestyle will climb to 1 in 150. The odds of dying in an auto accident are only 1 in twenty-five hundred. Now, this marks a drastic increase...

  Science Teacher : ...from fourteen years ago, when ozone depletion was just at 10 percent of its current level. By the time you are thirty years old, average global temperature will have risen two and a half degrees, causing such catastrophic consequences as typhoons, floods, widespread drought, and famine.

  [Cut to David absorbing all this grim information and looking really depressed] 

  Science Teacher : [With a bright smile:]  Okay! Who can tell me what "famine" is?